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Tucker v. State

Citations

  • 274 S.W.3d 688
  • 2008 Tex. Crim. App. LEXIS 1443
  • 2008 WL 5047699

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • finding police officer was qualified to testify whether a knife or key was used as a deadly weapon
  • considering police officer testimony probative as to whether deadly weapon was used
  • even without description of weapon, injuries suffered by the victim can by themselves be sufficient basis for inferring deadly weapon was used
  • a victim’s injuries alone may be sufficient to find that a deadly weapon was used
  • even without description of weapon, injuries suffered by the victim can by themselves be sufficient basis for inferring deadly weapon was used
  • even without description of weapon, injuries suffered by victim can by themselves be sufficient basis for inferring deadly weapon was used

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Keller

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151 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

Cites

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